Everything has to be video huh? Based on the comments here, this could have been a text post with a paragraph of text.
Sums up a lot of mental outlaw vids
But he’s so edgy!
Jesus what the hell is going on in those comments over there.
I went to odysee once and saw the Babylon Bee advertised front page. Told me all I needed to know about the platform.
What’s wrong with the Babylon Bee? Isn’t that a site similar to The Onion?
Edit: lol downvoted for asking a genuine question?
You went against the cult. How dare you!
So many alternatives get flooded with these crazy people
What the hell indeed.
It’s funny cuz I had an ad blocker that worked on Youtube for a while but then stopped working one day. That was 3 years ago and I was too lazy to find a better blocker. Since they started putting that pop up in EVERY video, that prompted me to finally install a working one. Good job, Youtube. Ya played yaself.
I could deal with the 2 ads at the beginning of the video and the end but when they added ad interruptions in the middle of 5 minute videos and had ads covering the comments on every video. Yeah, screw off YouTube.
I just sideloaded uYou and it doesn’t even know what ads are so it never loads them. I would never had bothered circumventing the ads if they were reasonable, but they aren’t. They want everyone on premium and obviously have disdain for non-premium users. Have no zero respect for that kind of business.
I was OK with a couple of ads in the beginning until their system went bonkers. For days it fed me the unskippable Kingsman movie trailer every single damn video I tried to watch.
That and my favorite Youtubers (mainly Red Letter Media) fighting Youtube which auto-inserted ads in the middle of their videos against their will, really cemented my ad blocker usage. They kept configuring their videos removing the ad placement and the ad was readded automatically. Now thankfully they are demonetized so Youtube ignores them.
- The video’s comment section on its native site is… interesting.
- I don’t trust this guy. It feels like he’s just slinging things at the wall that most people could intuit without any research. Yes, sometimes things backfire when you try to stifle them. Sometimes, however, the stifling works (otherwise dictators would have a much harder time ruling). That’s just the way things go.
- I’ma need some actual data to back up Youtube’s anti-adblocker experiment succeeding/failing. People are so quick to jump on the ‘it failed’ or ‘it succeeded’ bandwagon but the truth is we simply don’t know the result yet, and may not for a long while.
- This could’ve been an email. This guy’s delivery is sprawling and lacks conciseness.
I have some tech savvy friends who caved in a took a YouTube premium sub because they didn’t know the fix to refresh ublock rules.
So I think YouTube’s strategy is working, even if they are not completely blocking blockers they are still converting some blockers to paying users.
tldw?
His argument is:
- A lot of people were using poor adblockers.
- Youtube can block the bad ones but struggles with the good ones.
- People switch to the better adblockers (some of which require a subscription)
Which is why you always finish your antibiotics
I’m hearing first time that some of the adblockers require subscription… Like, there’s ublock origin, the one and only god out there, why would you like to go somewhere else, even closed source?
Edit: damn autocorrect
I thought odysee was dying because LBRY got got by the SEC?
As they say, “like a bitch”
